Intentional Wasting of "time"

[Swamp]

The more I self-gather to raise overall Profession levels, the more I hate all of the "gathering" skills.

They're timed so that as much "time" is wasted as possible. What is wrong with gathering the 4-8 nodes all in a row within 1 "section"? If I could do that then I could at least chill for a bit and yaknow, socialize or at least crack/stretch the fingers....

But no, it all has to be timed out so any sort of downtime is a pure waste. Unless ofc it's like, a few seconds like with mining.

Honestly, I would much rather all of a resource is in 1 map/area and "run through" all 6/8 nodes within 15 seconds, then have to "wait" that extra 25 seconds whilst gathering if there isn't going to be any middle ground between constant clicking for gathering and paying attention and pure passive skills where you don't do anything for up to 24 hours.

Like honestly, there is absolutely no reason to even self-gather anything.

It's too tedious, it's not worth it, and you can do many other "chill" skills and put KP towards the gathering skills then use that time to do any other "chill" skill to make up the cost from having to buy resources from a vendor. And even then, once you reach a certain level you make money doing it anyway so there's even less reason to....

If I'm going to constantly have to click, might as well vendor and if I'm going to vendor, might as well KP gathering skills.

What I would be fine with is that whenever you unlock the next "tier" of a resource, it allows you to "afk gather" the previous tier whilst at a slower rate than manual.

Example being if you can gather 6 logs/ores/stones/fish/whatever within 60 seconds; make it so that we only gather 4 logs in 60 seconds but it's also an entire "tier" lower (Coarse instead of rugged).

Ofc I'd prefer it even more than that but hey, all I care about tbh is just not having to click every few seconds when I have to collect tens of thousands of items. I'd rather sacrifice an entire tier of exp/money just to click once every couple of minutes vs once ever couple of seconds.

The way it stands, once trading comes it's going to be worse because it's going to be botted to hell and back. Tedious skills ain't "prestigious", they're just botted.

[XJ9]

Game just needs guild chat and episode/general chat.

[Ratsplat]

In the time it takes to gather/level up gathering, we could instead just focus on combat and become rich enough to just buy everything instead to then craft.

Hmm.

[Ignatius Vulcan]

Or, like I always have said before with gathering skills:

Make them more chill... Make them depletable with a decrease in gathering speed if they must... ranging from 1-24 items collected per node. Basically like trees in RS with a chance of depletion depending on the thing collected/cut.

You'll see those spots populated in no time if something like this is implemented.

Mark my words.

[Swamp]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ratsplat:

In the time it takes to gather/level up gathering, we could instead just focus on combat and become rich enough to just buy everything instead to then craft.

Hmm.

My point exactly. The "gathering" skills will only be populated by bots and players that just drop whatever they're gathering cuz it's the highest level/exp to get it over with then make up the difference elsewhere whilst also putting KP into said skills. If they could only do KP they would which tbh, there are enough other skills that are fine enough you prolly could if going for "overall" level instead of rushing it for future leaderboard.

Make them worth it. There are so many different reasons tbh as to why self-gathering not only sucks, it's completely detrimental to account progression as it's intended that they're all more bot-bait than even allowing Trading for FtP players.

[Swamp]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Ignatius Vulcan:

Or, like I always have said before with gathering skills:

Make them more chill... Make them depletable with a decrease in gathering speed if they must... ranging from 1-24 items collected per node. Basically like trees in RS with a chance of depletion depending on the thing collected/cut.

You'll see those spots populated in no time if something like this is implemented.

Mark my words.

That's what I said at the end, make them more chill. I even accepted keeping the current method if people wanna put in the same amount of effort as bossing + get rewarded for their effort, but just give us the option to "chill" them.

This ain't RSC, and it definitely ain't 20+ years ago. All this super-manual and tedious with tens of thousands of clicks only incites more bots in the game if people even wanna keep playing it.

[Swamp]

Oprindeligt skrevet af XJ9:

Game just needs guild chat and episode/general chat.

It does need those, but honestly that does nothing for anything I'm saying. You don't have enough "time" to even use them for any gathering skills.

[Bill Posters is an Innocent Man]

Why race?

[Scheneighnay]

This is why I like the GE in runescape.
If something is slow, tedious, and necessary, you can also make loads of money doing it. There's a natural balance cast between making money and getting exp.

Here, it's slow, tedious, and you get nothing for your trouble other than progressing to the next slow and tedious objective.

[Commando]

Remember when you could get half an inventory of logs from one tree in osrs? Not in this game. This game is a royal waste of time.

[chancan]

Yes videogames are an intentional waste of time

[JP]

After hitting 900 total i quit the game, some skills are just painful to level up and i don't see any point of grinding anything without trade or cool items.
They gotta add more bossing and more RNG loot items into the game.

[tejč]

why are you guys comparing this game to runescape? just go play runescape......

[Scheneighnay]

Oprindeligt skrevet af tejč:

why are you guys comparing this game to runescape? just go play runescape......

it's almost as if it's made by the exact same person and is almost a carbon copy of it

[Ponder]

Oprindeligt skrevet af chancan:

Yes videogames are an intentional waste of time

It's not really about it being a waste of time. It's more about it being less enjoyable than it should be. I agree with other comments about making nodes a depletable resource to give more downtime where I can just watch my character or do other things during the grind.

In fact, they could make gathering take the same amount of total time to get a full inventory as it currently does, but it would be more enjoyable because you don't have to click as much and you have more downtime.